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Celtic Diary Thursday April 13: Fun, Fixtures and Failings

Finally, the SPFL fixtures computer has been fixed-or someones found ten bob for the slot- and today we will learn when we face the other four teams who have finished in the top six.

Bizarrely, we already know when the next “rangers ” game will be, but it appears the SPFL couldn’t be arsed with the other games until someone from one of the sponsors pointed out to Neil Doncaster that there are “ten other teams in the fucking league you know “.

Our game couldn’t be in safer hands.

Doncaster, of course, may have been a little busy in negotiations with BT over the screening rights for Scottish football. Our man on the inside has told us that Doncaster has won the first major battle around the table by forcing the communications giant to actually pay for the games, which is a marked shift in policy from the last few years.

Now, its just a question of how much , and for how long.

And if someone else can do the rest of the talking.

 

Back at the ranch, and the gates are being opened for the fans tomorrow with another of those open days where the players will pretend to train, the coaches will pretend to coach, and the manager will pretend to manage.

Join Us On Friday to Watch The Champions Train At Paradise

CELTIC fans have the unique opportunity to watch the Champions train on the Celtic Park pitch this Friday, April 14 at our Champions’ Training Day.

The stadium opens from 9am before the hour-long training session kicks-off at 10:30am, with supporters of all ages encouraged to attend and watch their heroes as they are put through their paces in Paradise.

Speaking ahead of the open Training Day at Paradise, Brendan Rodgers said: “The Training Day will give our supporters a chance to see how some of our training sessions work and an opportunity to see the how the players work close-up.

“It will also give us a really important opportunity once again to thank everyone for their magnificent support throughout the season. Our supporters have been phenomenal all year and have played such an important role in our success.   

“I hope as many fans as possible will be able to come to the stadium and I’m sure we will have a fun morning together.”

This is a ticketed event and you must have a ticket to access the stadium on the day.

Tickets for the Champions’ Training Day are free on a first-come, first-served basis, and here’s how to get your hands on them:

In-Store
Tickets are available to collect now from all official Celtic stores across Scotland (max 10 tickets per person).

Click HERE to find your nearest Celtic store.

Online
Print-at-home tickets are available online from eticketing.co.uk/celtic. A one-off £2.30 administration fee per transaction applies (max. 10 tickets per transaction).

Please note, standard tickets for this event will NOT be available from the Celtic Park Ticket Office.

Supporters looking for accessible seating should visit the Ticket Office or call 0141 230 1967. These will be available on a first come, first served basis.

 

It should be fun, and of course shouldn;t be taken seriously, but one does wonder where the laughs will come from now that Efe Ambrose is at Hibernian, Carlton Cole somewhere in America, and Dorus de Vries being told he is not taking part in the penalty kick competition.

Mind you, anything that gets the kids closer to their heroes can only be a good thing. They’re the next generation of supporters, and more importantly, our excuse for going to the football.

The mood around Celtic Park remains carefree and windswept  with the double boost that there’s £15 million to spend this summer, and we’ve got someone with a better than average knowledge of knowing how to spend it.

Of course, publicising a budget isn’t always a good thing, and it can backfire when clubs suddenly add a few quid on to asking prices, but with the club now engaging a policy of lockdown on information, it wouldn’t be surprising if not only had the transfer targets been identified, but already signed up, and the money isn’t in fact a budget, its a receipt.

Speaking of receipts and the like, some of you may have seen this recently..

Which if course, is proof that things are going well, despite what you may hear anywhere else.

Conversely, you may hear all sorts of good things from the other side of the city, which are, of course, complete bollocks.

March 31 saw the deadline for the submission of the necessary paperwork for those who wish their club to participate in European competition, and it looks like all is not well at Ibrox..

To sum up, here’s a post that appeared on CQN recently, from Brogan Rogane Trevino, who knows about these things..

Re the position of the SFA and the current Ibrox club’s application for playing licences for European and even domestic competition can I point out that their situation in terms of statutory compliance has never been worse.

 When the previous club submitted their applications under Murray, the SFA, SPL and UEFA were able to rely on audited accounts and a company structure which clearly had the benefit of bank support. Further, there was no suggestion of the then directors being either banned from holding a company position by companies house or any regulatory body.

  Even with the EBT’s and the side letters it is at least arguable that the then Rangers complied on a prima facie level, with breaches of the then rules only being discovered upon serious further enquiry with there being no great desire on the part of the footballing authorities to look into their affairs.

 There were very few who even contemplated asking questions.

  Today, that is wholly different for a variety of reasons.

 First, as has been repeatedly pointed out the current Rangers have no line of credit and no support frrom a bank.

 Second, they have been delisted from the stock exchange and have no audited accounts.

 Third, their management structure and at least some of their directors have been the subject of specific undertakings and assurances which have been given to the SFA (and therefore their members) in order to reach initial directorate compliance. You will recall that Kind was not allowed to become a director of the company which directly controls the football club.

 Fourth, not only is King a convicted criminal he is now on the verge of being cold shouldered in worldwide financial terms. No one should underestimate the effect that can have on any company with which he is involved including subsidiaries. The SFA have previous experience of football directors who were cold shouldered and it led to the enforced exit of Mr Di Stefano from Dundee Football Club.

 The SFA will struggle to justify accepting any financials or projections from any Rangers Club linked to King if the formal cold shoulder is dropped upon him.

 Fifth – the climate amongst football owners is very different to that of 5 years ago and the attitude of several clubs will have changed completely since then. Back in the day after Nimmo Smith some clubs wanted the whole thing to move on and to get the whole Rangers debacle behind them. Dundee Utd and Kilmarnock can be listed amongst those who expressed that view in writing.

 Others, however, did not and they unsuccessfully sought to appeal Nimmo Smith’s Decision stating that the eventual fine and sanction was far too small given the nature of the charges the then Rangers were convicted of by LNS (notwithstanding the stated reasoning of the commission). The Highland Clubs, Hibs and others were all vociferous in their condemnation of the LNS events and stated clearly they were not happy with the outcome.

 This was as a result of a committee meeting which no one attended personally (it was done by phone) and which the Celtic representative could not attend at all due it being convened when he was on holiday.

 The position today is that many of the clubs are far better run, their directors are far more resolute, more commercially astute, and some may even have current or past axes to grind. Fiscal non compliance is now watched for like a hawk and clubs want to see that there is a level playing field when it comes to stautory compliance. There are some clubs in Scotland who, in my opinion, will not want to see the current Rangers set up being given the slightest leniency in terms of compliance.

 Lastly, sinc the last debacle in 2011, The Court of Arbitration for Sport has handed down a very clear judgement when it comes to football compliance which, in my opinion, makes it imposible for any football association to come up with a “Bryson” type explanation on registration and/or compliance.

 That judgement says that in the event of a meterial set of facts or documents not being disclosed (such as EBT side letters or payments), or incomplete (such as wages records being missing or accounts not being audited in the proper fashion) then the entire licensing application and any licence granted is functus — in other words rejected and to be tretaed as never having been received. There can be no technically correct registration or compliance in such circumstances and strict compliance rules the day. The onus is on the football club to have everything perfect at the appropriate time and if not it is curtains.

 There are very serious questions as to whether or not the current Rangers can comply with UEFA standards and that only gets worse if the cold shoulder is applied. In terms of European Status, The Scottish Football Association cannot afford to mess this up.

 Otherwise they and UEFA know that questions will be asked of them which they would rather not face at all.  

And here’s a summary from me..

Image result for theyre fucked

Again, the media have tried to play things down for the hordes, but with the deadline passing for Dave King to make his offer all the shares in the club that he doesn’t already own, its apparent we have now entered the end game.

Despite assurances to the support, and the sports media, who have suddenly become financial experts, the “cold shoulder ” is quite serious.

The picture above describes neatly how serious, and all that remains now is for King to exit stage left, with a few more quid than he arrived with, and David Murray to come riding out of the sunrise -well, it would be unfair to ask him to walk-to set up the third version of the club in time for next year.

If not Murray, it will be one of the old lot. The five year bans are all but up, and this time we’ll see real Real Rainjjurrs men at the helm.

And the support ?

They’ll continue with their usual outlook on matter at Ibrox..

Another entity which tends not to look facts in the face is Talkshite Radio, the struggling radio station that regularly appeals to Celtic supporters to make their listening figures appeal to advertisers by coming up with something that will get us to respond.

 Usually along the lines of Celtic being a small club who would struggle in the English Second Division, or whatever its called these days, and yet there’s something they may not be aware of..

Well, another thing they may not be aware of.

Barcabhoy on twitter, a diligent fellow who looks at facts, has completed an in depth look at Celtic in Europe, and the top clubs in Englands performances …which he then compared, using the top six in England as one entity based on the average figures of those clubs…

We haven’t done that badly, have we ?

 There was no diary yesterday, I had to take the car in to finally get the boot fixed, and so  I was running late.

The day before that we published a critique of the Mark Daly documentary the other night.

Well, someone had to.

It hasn’t been covered anywhere else, which makes me wonder.

For such a serious subject, its been ignored somewhat, and in tonights podcast, you’ll hear us discussing it.

See what I did there ? Saved myself some typing and also promoted a podcast.

Daly isn’t the first to corner Torbett recently, and he had a lot less success than the previous questioner…

But there has been no comment from the police on the fresh allegations, and none from Daly about handing over his dossier to the police.

Which is strange.

We go back to Monday for the last picture pondering puzzle, which was this one..

I can’t decide between these two… so they both win

Una April 10, 2017 at 10:59 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption: Im sevcos manager get me outta here.

Patrick Street April 10, 2017 at 12:05 pm · Edit · Reply →

In the year 2030 a property speculator looks at a bit of land in Govan and wonders what it used to be. 

 

Now, what kind of motivational speech could this fellow be giving his staff ?

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BJF
6 years ago

Caption Top Cop: it’s not gecking difficult, they’re green and they are a brigade , now go get ’em!”

BJF
6 years ago

Caption Top Cop: it’s not fecking difficult, they’re green and they are a brigade , now go get ’em!”

Bognorbhoy
6 years ago

Is the chief saying :
Repeat after me .

If it wears green , offensive it’s been .

If it wears blue sing along too.

Tony Carlin
6 years ago
Reply to  Bognorbhoy

thats a winner!

IRISHGUY
6 years ago

CAPTION………..

All together now Ah 1 Ah 2 Ah 3

Hello Hello we are the ………….

The real anton rogan
6 years ago

So we are looking for a chest, choked full of cash. It may or may not have War imprinted on the front…..

Gagla11
6 years ago

Okay, you’ve all got a copy of Monday’s photo comp.

Now get out there and find that man. 2 years ago he set off looking for the warchest.

That photo is all we’ve had since.

schoosh71
6 years ago

Caption: “Have You Seen A Handsome HUN”.

Caption: Club 1873 hold AGM to tell King to GTF. HH

Mike Bhoyle
6 years ago

He’s sayin’…

“Right you lot …listen up…
If they’re no wearin’colours..but are as ugly as fuck…
Leave them alane…they’re wan o’ us.”

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: ” Hands up if you are in the mood for a treble party “?

mike
6 years ago

Is it Brexit for the King?, after the latest saga with the Take over panel, or is it Liquidation 2? One thing is for certain, that he does not do conventional. His brass neck is like Kriptonite hun damageable. No Nomad, no stock exchange listing,
nomad er until they/ he is gone, its Wonga for thems.

Its Wonga for thems,
Its Wonga for thems,
if your no from Wonga,
yer no use to thems,
Goldfish is braw,
high interest in awe,
but if your no frae Wonga,
yer nae use to themssssssssssssss.

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: ” As you are all aware the singing of the Billy boys is sectarian, banned and not to be tolerated in society.
Now you were all on duty at Pittodrie on Sunday, the away support were clearly singing it for the world to hear…..hands up who made arrests for this crime “?

Honest hoops
6 years ago

Caption; top cock….as PC Tim gets beat up behind me, just turn your back..easy peasy

Martin67
6 years ago

Caption: I just here there has been a last minute winner, after we finish our donuts, we better get back inside.

Monti
6 years ago

Caption: ” Morning, good to see a broad diversity of cultures in attendance today, does anyone here have any objections to having sexual intercourse with a goat…or indeed goats”?

mike
6 years ago

My name is Mike and I am an addict.

I am addicted to Etims and ripping the pish out of Monti.
I am also addicted to jelly babies, my favourite yins, are the black yins, does that make me a racist? I have just returned from a spell in rehab at Rowentree House, but it was no use, I still love them, HELP.

Admin
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

My name is Mike and I am an Unionist.

psyche!

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

Seen your profile on Tinder, it’s under the heading of Vinvocci.
I am a young man into S and N. My prefered babe is GREEN. of the jelly variety.

Admin
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

close, grinder

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Desi Mond

If Jim Sillars, Robert Maxwell and Alex Neil are unionist, then guilty.

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

More chance of Primark!

D'Fhinnein Mick
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

I think it makes you a Bassett Hound.

I hope that doesn’t make you mad(!)

mike
6 years ago

Hahaha, no just someone who likes a joke and liquorice.

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Tried that Weered lost my hair but my liver is bahhh great.

6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Never understood why all opal fruits weren’t strawberry

The Cha
6 years ago

I just don’t get how Celtic charge for you to print at home.

It’s the same with match tickes, I think it costs more than posting out actual tickets. Wtf?

Rudebhoy
6 years ago

Caption – Ok let’s try that again. After me, GLASGOWS GREEN AND WHITE…….

JoeKSG
6 years ago

Right then brothers and sisters first rite in yer initiation into the craft or the eastern star is book a taig.

MattyBhoy
6 years ago

“No sergeant, kettling does not mean smack them with a teapot…”

SJ
6 years ago

Caption……
“Right troops, it’s important to remember the rules, if it starts with the word “Hello” you didn’t hear anything, but if it starts with “father, why are you…” then it is truly offensive”

Carl Bigginslater
6 years ago

Just clarify the Champions League stats table from Barcabhoy – If Chelsea (1), Man U (2) and Liverpool (1) have won 4 CLs between them how does the average come out at 1.5 trophies?

5TB
6 years ago

Caption;

‘…so…, no hands at all? Not one? Not one of you wants to go on an all expenses paid trip to Westminster?’

Mike Annis
6 years ago

If it’s in green and white it’s guilty. Huckle them. Right boys put the kettle on.

Cartvale88
6 years ago

Caption
Don’t worry boys we have secret agent Gollum refereeing the semi, the cup will be oors. Now a rendition of Hullo, hullo.

rebus67
6 years ago

Here is what I think will happen over at Ibrox. Of course, I am just as likely to be wrong as correct w.r.t. Mr King’s actions.
Mr King’s position at Sevco is not tenable anymore and he knows it. The Board knows and have known it ever since the Takeover panel verdict. Several of the Board want him out immediately. Mr King has two options, both of which involve him leaving his executive positions at Sevco. Firstly, he can find a shadow executive through which he can exercise control of Sevco, rather as Ashley attempted to do earlier. Secondly, he can play Russian Roulette until he gets his shares sold at an acceptable price. He may know where some bodies are buried so he can force the second option.

What is more interesting is what does the future hold for Sevco? Administration is certainly possible. Similarly, they can stumble along with a more economically sustainable business model that involves cutting their cloth accordingly. This would mean that they would have to settle for second, third or fourth finishes in the league, with third being the most likely, depending on how good Pedro turns out to be, and whether Cathro gets his act together at Hearts.
Occasionally, they will get a good result against us but they will not challenge for the league.
The only way that I see things changing is if Sevco interests a deep pocket benefactor who is prepared to develop the club over at least a three year period . This could involve picking Sevco up after an admin event. If it does happen I hope that this benefactor starts the club from a fresh perspective, clearly stating that it is a new entity with a history that has still to be developed. Only then, will the club have a chance of being free of the bigotry of the previous versions. This would suggest that the benefactor needs to come from outside the Scottish milieu.

Whatever occurs, Mr King will be gone by the end of the season.

Rebus

rebus67
6 years ago

Long post probably doing the rounds of the Trash cans! Can someone shake the can and examine the entrails?

Rebus

Rebus67
6 years ago
Reply to  rebus67

Weered,

Not bad. We have a sunny day here in Ontario and Spring is clearly here.
Time to get stuck into the garden if only to chase away the chipmunks!

Rebus

mike
6 years ago

I am worried about Lenny, He was a great player and Manager for us, but for his health I hope he can settle down a wee bit. You could tell that he hurt himself with the spat with Jim Duffy, it clearly upset him, I do not want him to take a heart attack or a stroke, he needs to take care of himself better, we wish him well. Bring up the Hibee’s, I also would not object to the SPL getting bigger, to include, Dundee Utd. and Falkirk as well as the sunshine on Leith.

6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Agree mike I preferred the old 18 team league two points for a win and you could pass the ball back to the keeper where he could pick it up instead of blootering it randomly up the park

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Iancelt67

Ian, Sometimes they take one step forward, two steps back, the SPL have tried to jazz this League up, when the obvious answer is to enlarge it, Morton could also find a place, good teams reasonable support, refresh and enlarge, it would make these teams some extra dosh.

Rudebhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

Mike i was concerned with that incident myself and watched the press conferences. Lennon has every right to be a aggrieved at the challenge and the reaction of Duffy and the rest. A fuckin disgrace from Duffy to be honest. I know he’s a going for 55 believing media whore but there was no need for that. Hanging about with zombies too much.
We are all Neil Lennon, we are not all Jim Duffy.

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Rudebhoy

Rudebhoy, I agree, the tackle WAS a disgrace and Lenny had every right to be angry, I was concerned for HIM, he needs to try to detach himself a little bit more, cos he is going to really hurt himself, if he does not.
Love the wee man and want to see him achieve all his dreams.

Davie Wilson
6 years ago

*Cop calling the kettlers black.

Doesn’t anyone think it weird, and more than just a wee bit sick, that UEFA ordered men who had just been bombed the day before to go and play a football match?

Surely the game could have waited until the players had fully recovered from such a traumatic incident?

The game is simply NOT more important than life & death, yet no one even seems to have questioned this outrageous decision by UEFA.

There’s more to it than meets the eye.

Frank McGaaaarvey
6 years ago
Reply to  Davie Wilson

Davie,

The Dortmund coach was less than pleased that the players and staff involved were not at least consulted with their thoughts about playing the game. I know that we have to forge on and not let the bad guys win and all that, but if the Dortmund players were genuinely still traumatised and shaken (which I’m sure they were less than 24 hours later) then they could surely have postponed the game for a week or so? Or would the CL sponsors not have liked that?

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Davie Wilson

The power of the telly, the money men talk, I think the decision was disgraceful, sporting integrity second to the economics of the game. Having said that, the fixture list’s are congested especially at that level, still no excuse.

Davie Wilson
6 years ago
Reply to  mike

In light of all the evidence, in light of this and other recent events, I have to go with the photo meme from the top of this page a couple of weeks back.

It read: ‘Your false flags don’t work anymore. For we are now awake.’

Cheers for that, Ralph. Prescient or what?

Jez
6 years ago

Caption:-

‘Could anyone who hasn’t received their Ibrokes season ticket yet please put up their hands!’

Jez
6 years ago

Caption:-

‘Ok guys, unfortunately arrests rates are below our target for the month. Fortunately though Celtic are playing at home today, so fill your boots’

portpower
6 years ago

Every colour in the world. Lent is over,time for shite again…

Only 2 of those crew slut tickets though. I need a wee.

6 years ago

Caption
“All together boys the cry was young offenders”

6 years ago

Or
“I’ve already briefed the horses about the game at parkheid, but they wanted more of the drugs that killed river Phoenix before starting their shift or they won’t leave the stables”

6 years ago

Remember for those blue police phone boxes where they’d huckle you and put both knuckles on the side of your head and screw them into your temples until you nearly blacked out. True Huns all of them.

Rob O'Keeffe
6 years ago

Caption:Cheer up,did you hear Una won the caption competition?

Davie Wilson
6 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

And it was NOT because she called ‘Fix!’.. 😉

6 years ago

Long shot here but would yous know of two spare seats on buses going from the north of Ireland to the semi final. Have our tickets but our lift fell through. Thanks ☘☘

rebus67
6 years ago

Here is what I think will happen over at Ibrox. Of course, I am just as likely to be wrong as correct w.r.t. Mr King’s actions.
Mr King’s position at Sevco is not tenable anymore and he knows it. The Board knows and have known it ever since the Takeover panel verdict. Several of the Board want him out immediately. Mr King has two options, both of which involve him leaving his executive positions at Sevco. Firstly, he can find a shadow executive through which he can exercise control of Sevco, rather as Ashley attempted to do earlier. Secondly, he can play Russian Roulette until he gets his shares purchased at an acceptable price. He may know where some bodies are buried so he can force the second option.

What is more interesting is what does the future hold for Sevco? Administration is certainly possible. Similarly, they can stumble along with a more economically sustainable business model that involves cutting their cloth accordingly. This would mean that they would have to settle for second, third or fourth finishes in the league, with third being the most likely, depending on how good Pedro turns out to be.

Occasionally, they will get a good result against us but they will not challenge for the league.
The only way that I see things changing is if Sevco interests a deep pocket benefactor who is prepared to develop the club over at least a three year period . This could involve picking Sevco up after an admin event. If it does happen I hope that this benefactor starts the club from a fresh perspective, clearly stating that it is a new entity with a history that has still to be developed. Only then will the club have a chance of being free of the bigotry of the previous versions.

Whatever occurs, Mr King will be gone by the end of the season.

Rebus

portpower
6 years ago

Caption:
Now don`t be givin` away free Easter eggs because zombies get zits.

Rudebhoy
6 years ago

Rebus and Weered i love the blether but it’s all a dream, these bastards will never die. They are the spawn of Satan. Ebts or not they’ve been at it since 1888 and probably before. Financiers have been ploughing money into bigotry and the Huns for ever and will continue to do so. Kings exit will just encourage another bigoted caveman to step in. Pedro has not hired a real Rainjurs man to back him so his days are numbered Le guen style. Bazza, Bummer Brown and Hugh Burns dream team.

mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Rudebhoy

Rudebhoy, yet again I agree with what you say, I am going to put ma twopence worth down later, so would welcome your input, your’s to Weered.

Alec
6 years ago

Caption…Ok guys the sevco board want to thank us for doing a great job at the last home game,they gave me cash and told me to buy you all a drink…..So who want first slug of the irn bru bottle.

portpower
6 years ago

Have an en joyous Easter Ghirls and Bhoys.HH

Celts by 3.

portpower
6 years ago

Glib…

Enjoy.

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